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Here we go the black panthers were much more that I could do much more about that time for started this a time of the black panthers passed the black panthers still exist in the black kind of business still extremely active in in the open community and in communities. All over the country I'm not to whether you are with what is now um happening in the black panther party in the kinds of things that members of that party doing the to me first of all, if you To talk about it, revolutionary situation you have to have people who are physically able to win revolution with physically able to organize and physically able to do all that and stand number the question how you get the to get their confrontation. Landon's was that the question you have u. C. That's that's another thing when you talk about it, revolution, most people think hours um without realizing that the real content of any kind of revolutionary trust laws and and in the principles in the goes that u, striving for, not in the way you reach them on the Other hand, uh because of the weight this societies organize because of the violence that exist on the surface everywhere. You have to expect that they are going to be such explosions. You have to expect things like that is me actions if you 'black person live and in the black community, all your life and walk out on the Street everyday seeing White policeman surrounding u I'm when I was living in Los Angeles Since long before the situation in La a good, I was constantly stop no to the police. Didn't know who I was but I was a black woman. I have had a natural and and they said supposed stuff that I might be a quote militant and when you live under situation like that constantly um uh and time in and then you ask me, you know whether I approve of violence and that just doesn't make any sense It all up twitter, I approved guns I've grew up in birmingham, Alabama and some very, very good friends of mine were killed by bombs, bombs that were planted by races. Um. I remembered from the time I was very small. I remember the sound of bombs exploding across the Street House shaking. I remember my father, having to have guns that is disposal in all times because of the fact that, at any moment to someone, we might expect to be attacked the man who was at that time and can't Please control of the city government is name was bull. Connor uh. What I can get on the radio and make statements like nigga moved into White people who'd. We better expect some budget tonight at show enough that would be blood shit and after the foot you're, young girls who were who's living live one of the new next door to me, I was very good friends with the sister of another man. My sister was very good friends with all three that my mother top one of the minute class My mother in fact when the bombing of could one of the mothers of uh one of the young girls called my mother and said uh, can you take me down to the church to pick up the cow. I know we heard about the bombing and and I don't have my car and they went down and what they finally found limbs and heads going all over the place and then, after event, in my neighborhood, all the men organize themselves and one on the truth they have to take their guns and patrol our community every night because they did not want that to happen again. That's. Why, when someone ask me about violence or uh, I just stood. I just find an incredible it's because it what it means that the person was asking that question has actually no idea but black people have gone through but back people of experiences country since the time the first that person was kidnapped from the shores of Africa